master and slave?
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Posted on May 19, 2004 08:42 am
Mauz
grrrrrrr
Member Since: Mar 29, 2004
I have heard a lot about master and slave, setting master to most reliable device etc... I really have no idea what this is all about. Anyone care to elaborate? Seems like something important I just dont get at all.
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flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
May 19, 2004 08:45 am i assume youre talking about hard drives rather than your social life?
ive just got a twin hard drive machine, so it be interesting to know. i knwo one is the main drive, and another, well, isnt, but more than that i dont know...
tonyd1970The fat one always watches us.Member
Since: Nov 08, 2002
May 19, 2004 09:08 am In IDE or EIDE (enhanced)now- Master is the one all info passes through, the slave is daisy chained off the master. (unless we are talking SCSI drives.) Therefore you should set your fastest drive as master, and make it the first in your chain. setting them up is easy, the drives have a "jumper" with the letters M S and maybe a spot for S single or D dual i dont remember.
Its done like that for bios and os to find what they need. No huge biggie really- but if you leave 2 new drives set to single master, and plug them in, you will have problems........
For setting up a really fast music computer, you should have a fast drive set up on your ide controller on your mother board and get another ide controller, and plug a fast drive into it (so there is no daisy chain) in that case both are set to master. put your os on one, and record to the other. (thats perfect world, with a really fast machine and losts of memory)
ILLbizzelILLbino - one of WA's finestMember
Since: Feb 10, 2004
May 19, 2004 10:13 am flametheband:
i assume youre talking about hard drives rather than your social life?
LOL....
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
May 19, 2004 10:23 am lol.
what y'all get up to in your own time is your own business...
im off to play with a 3 1/2 inch floppy now...
tonyd1970The fat one always watches us.Member
Since: Nov 08, 2002
May 19, 2004 12:43 pm Trying to be adult around here is a waste of time.
since alot of us are one man bands, we really do all play with ourselves.
its reallly super embarresing to bust your G-String on stage......
There are no drum questions, just drum answers...
May 19, 2004 01:09 pm master and slave also refers to sync devices like running multiple adats or midi it has to do with time code. im sure the same principles apply to hard drive master and slave as tony said.
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
May 19, 2004 11:15 pm Oh and the state of California turns in it's grave! Bad words, bad words! Goodspeek only please! Adult....where, on no the grops are comming! Ya, it sometimes means primary, and it sometimes means controler. They can be ambigious terms. For syncronizing data the Master will provide all clocking and all of the slaves will use the master's clock. Comes to drives it's more of a pecking order. Primary and secondary almost make more sense.
MauzgrrrrrrrMember
Since: Mar 29, 2004
May 20, 2004 11:59 am josh - tell me more. whats that all about?
May 20, 2004 12:09 pm In almost every case where the words "master" and "slave" are used it refers to the master being the primary device. In the case of hard drives the master is the C: drive (or hda or whatever, depends on your OS) the primary drive, in MIDI the master device is the device that all other sync to so they are all clocked from the same metronome and such other utlities to keep them on the path path.
FYI, these terms may be changing, as I know of at least one wacky, left-wing bleeding-heart liberal group in the liberal macca of the world, the US, that is filing lawsuits against computer manufacturers for using such derogatory terms as "master" and "slave"...and with this liberal BS political-correct frickin world we live in, I would bet this standard will be changed becasue of these wack jobs...
